Hidden beneath the landscape of Australia lies the Deniliquin Structure, the largest known impact crater on Earth. This video ...

is the largest and oldest-known impact crater on the planet. About 2 billion years ago, an impactor (most likely an asteroid) hurtled towards the Earth, forming the giant hole in the ground that ...

A crescent-shaped crater in Northeast China holds the record as the largest impact crater on Earth that formed in the last 100,000 years. Prior to 2020, the only other impact crater ever ...

At the time, researchers estimate the impact crater was a whopping 112 to 186 miles (180 to 300 km) wide. "The world’s oldest and largest known impact structure was formed," NASA said.

Around 2 billion years ago, an asteroid crashed near present-day Johannesburg, carving out what is now the world’s largest known crater. The impact initially put a dent in Earth’s surface that ...

Recent research published in the journal Technophysics points to the world’s largest known impact structure ... times as wide as Mexico’s Chicxulub crater, which was left by the meteor ...

As a result, the Vredefort crater is considered the largest impact crater on Earth despite being smaller than the Chicxulub crater today. You may like Scientists discover Earth's oldest impact ...

It’s called the Vredefort Crater, and it’s Earth’s largest confirmed impact crater. The Vredefort impactor struck Earth about 2 billion years ago during the Paleoproterozoic Era and is now ...

Possibly the best-known meteorite impact on Earth is the one that left the largely buried Chicxulub impact structure on the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico. This 180km diameter crater is the second ...

The record for the largest known asteroid crater on Earth is currently held by the Vredefort impact structure in South Africa that measures nearly 300km wide. The suspected underground crater ...

So far as geologists can tell, it's the largest hydrothermal crater on Earth. Mary Bay is more than 1½ miles in diameter — basically, gigantic. Tourists entering the park from Cody, Wyoming ...